My lucky escape from killer I met on dating site
Stalker ex beat Emma’s flatmate to death
A MUM has told how a dating website romance turned to horror when her “knight in shining armour” beat her pal to death in a jealous rage.
Emma Tozer thought window cleaner Anthony Brinton was her dream man when he chatted her up on website Plenty of Fish.
The couple began a relationship – but within months Brinton, 43, started being violent and controlling.
Emma, 42, broke off the affair but by then Brinton had become wildly jealous of her flatmate, Adrian Cieslik, wrongly believing they were having an affair.
He began to stalk her, prowling around her property and smashing her windows at night.
But torment turned to terror when Emma came back from a night out with her sister to find Adrian, 32, on his bedroom floor covered in blood.
Having left a nightclub at 2.30am, she arrived home to hear moaning from Adrian’s room.
Emma said: “I opened the door and saw him
VICTIM Adrian had been asleep in bed
CAUGHT ON FILM CCTV shows Brinton with hammer
lying there off the bed, covered head to toe in congealed blood.
“The room was like something out of a horror movie.
“Blood was splattered all over the walls, the ceiling, the bed. I shouted his name and he wasn’t responding. What I saw will stay with me forever.”
Adrian, who had been beat en around the head nine times with a claw hammer, died two months later.
Emma added: “I believe Brinton wanted to kill us both. If I hadn’t gone out that night I’d be dead now.”
Mum- of - two Emma, of Plymouth, Devon, told how Polish engineer Adrian had been sleeping off a night shift when she and her sister went for a night out in January this year. She said: “We had a great evening. At around aro 10pm I had two missed misse calls from an unknown number. I didn’t answe answer, the phone was in my co coat and I was dancing a away.” Spe Speaking after Br Brinton in was jaile jailed for Adrian’s
murder, Emma said: “The police tracked it down to Brinton who called me, literally 10 minutes before the attack.
“The court heard he just wanted to talk to me and Adrian and was unaware I was out.” She told how Brinton would get angry and call her a “slag” if he heard Adrian in the background during phone calls.
Emma said of Adrian, who moved to England seven years ago: “He was the kindest person.
“Everyone loved him. He was very protective over me and didn’t like the way Anthony treated me. I feel constantly guilty – if he hadn’t known me he would still be living a happy life today.”
She said of Brinton: “My family were warning me off but I ignored them. I’m still afraid 10 months on. What I experienced will affect me for the rest of my life.”
Brinton was seen on CCTV disposing of the hammer and clothes into the sea. He was jailed this month at Plymouth crown court for a minimum of 28 years.
If I hadn’t gone out that night, I believe I would be dead now
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